00:03www.mesmerism.info
00:04The road running, uh,
00:06it was, uh, people were thought
00:08of as freaks.
00:13We were, like, the offbeat people.
00:16I can remember in the winter
00:17somebody at the halfway
00:20mall giving out brandy.
00:25Oh yes!
00:26Listen to this!
00:29Fred LeBose. Fred
00:31ran like a duck. Except
00:33you're slower than a duck. I mean,
00:35he was slow. Everything, everything
00:37could be solved if you would only run.
00:40Everything.
00:42He wanted to take
00:43the running scene public
00:45and he didn't really care who
00:47he annoyed.
00:50The audacious
00:52idea was to run through
00:53all five birds.
00:57You're going into the Bronx?
00:59What does that mean?
01:00How safe is that going to be?
01:02A period of time when New York City
01:04needed something.
01:05He was the person that was needed.
01:08to run through.
01:09Well, mama tries to make...
01:10Five-bowl race actually
01:12put running right on everybody's doorstep.
01:15No one was mugged. No one was hit by a taxi.
01:17Talking about the streets team.
01:18Well, there it is.
01:20Talking about...
01:21All came together. It was the right time.
01:23There was the window.
01:25New York City Marathon really changed my life.
01:27It certainly made me New York.
01:29He was right there with me, pumping me up.
01:31It was my Olympics in a way.
01:33It was a great kickoff.
01:34For the road running boom to go global.
01:37The whole modern, urban, big city marathons
01:40around the world came out of New York.
01:44And you found time to run in what?
01:46Eleven marathons this year?
01:48Twelve.
01:50No, eleven different countries.
01:57The time, the place, the magic, the myth
02:01were all put into play
02:02because the right person was there
02:04at the right time.
02:05and that's how history is made.
02:11We knew we had a successful event.
02:13We didn't know how successful it's going to be.
02:16We couldn't anticipate
02:17a wildest dream
02:19that this was going to happen.
02:23And it's amazing how much more there is to do.
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